Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Google PageRank Algorithm
Interesting content about Google PageRank algorithm
Found in The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr
The information is not new; basically it’s about the importance of having related links – both inbound and outbound – on your websites. I still find the author’s description intesteting and well written.
Has Your Website Search Ranking Dropped Lately?
Possible reasons why your website search ranking changes over time or even overnight.
Search engine algorithm
Times change, people change and so does search engine algorithm. If algorithm sounds like a big word to you, as it does to me, then consider it as a giant set of complex [mathematic] formula that search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Bing develop to decide which websites are more relevant to what people search, thus will be displayed at the top, compared to all the sites indexed in their database.
Simple Ways to Increase Website Traffic & Search Ranking
Make your website more search engine friendly and enhance its traffic and visibility.
Already knew about how search engines work, here are some simple but fundamental ways to increase your website traffic and its visibility.
Just because your site was indexed doesn’t mean it’s visible
The bad news: Web spiders have the capability to crawl and index all pages within your website, and depending on the complexity of your site architecture/layout, they may miss some or many pages of your site, or sometimes your entire site. The worse new: your site may get read and indexed by search engines, but it may not appear in search results – not visible at all.
The main idea about increasing your site traffic and making it more visible is to give your readers what they want / what they search for.
How Search Engines Work
How Search Engines Read and Index Web Pages
This article is to provide you with the very first steps of making your website VISIBLE for search engines that is to understand how search engines work. Understanding how search engines work should happen before any SEO [Search engine optimization] works, and even before the website is created.
About search engines:
Search engines use web robots or web crawlers/ web spiders, which are programs traversing the website automatically, to index the web content to their database. Search engine’s job is to provide people with the information that is as close to what they searched for [known as search terms, keywords, key terms] as possible, no matter what form the requested information is in text, image, or video.
